Supported by funding agencies like the JSPS, Japan and NSF, USA, many students and researchers conducted research in collaboration with the researchers at Kochi/JAMSTEC. In future, we hope to receive researchers from many other countries for conducting research at the Kochi/JAMSTEC with financial support from their own country.

A few countries in Asia-Oceania are planning to build their own core repositories. Through the concept of Asia-Oceania Network of core repositories, we plan to provide them basic information about repository infrastructure and sample management system. We shall also train the curatorial staff of these repositories and help them in formulation of curation policy. In this way, it will be possible to exchange data and samples among these core repositories without any problem related to core sample management. It will also be helpful to the scientists in this region and throughout the world to access samples without being lost in complications of different sample request handling procedures in different core repositories.